Vincent Youmans (Composer)
Born: 27th September 1898, New York, U.S.A
Died: 5th April 1946, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Vincent Millie Youmans was an American Broadway composer and producer.
A leading Broadway composer of his day, Youmans collaborated with virtually all the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard Dietz, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Buddy DeSylva and Gus Kahn. Youmans' early songs are remarkable for their economy of melodic material: two-, three- or four-note phrases are constantly repeated and varied by subtle harmonic or rhythmic changes. In later years, however, apparently influenced by Jerome Kern, he turned to longer musical sentences and more free-flowing melodic lines. Youmans published fewer than 100 songs, but 18 of these were considered standards by ASCAP, a remarkably high percentage.
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- Carioca (10)
- Drums in my Heart (1)
- Flying Down to Rio (3)
- Great Day (5)
- Hallelujah (19)
- I Know That You Know (5)
- I Want to be Happy (29)
- More Than You Know (26)
- No, No, Nanette (6)
- Orchids in the Moonlight (1)
- Smiles (2)
- Sometimes I'm Happy (15)
- Tahiti Trot (1)
- Tea for Two (75)
- The Carioca (1)
- Time on my Hands (27)
- Without a Song (21)
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